Meta's New Mexico's Child Safety Lawsuit Goes to Trial

Is Meta hiding evidence of harm to teens or are lawsuits ignoring proof that social media helps young people?

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Meta's New Mexico's Child Safety Lawsuit Goes to Trial

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Above: Meta Platforms Inc. app icons on a smartphone in London, England, on Dec. 4, 2025. Image credit: Betty Laura Zapata/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Spin

Techno-skeptic narrative

Meta is trying to hide damning evidence from the jury by blocking references to teen suicide cases, mental health research and its own internal surveys showing rampant inappropriate content. The company's aggressive attempts to exclude information about its AI chatbots, Zuckerberg's past and its massive financial resources reveal a corporation more concerned with protecting its reputation than addressing how its platforms facilitated child exploitation and sexual abuse.

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Techno-optimist narrative

For over a decade, Meta has consistently prioritized teen safety by implementing built-in protections such as Teen Accounts, private defaults for minors and tools that give parents control over their children's social media use. Recent lawsuits cherry-pick internal documents to construct a misleading narrative while ignoring scientific evidence showing teen depression rates have actually declined as social media use increased, proving these platforms provide crucial benefits for young people seeking community and opportunity.